The look of the link - concepts for the user interface of extended hyperlinks

Weinreich, Harald; Obendorf, Hartmut; Lamersdorf, Winfried

doi:10.1145/504216.504225

Cited by 21 publications

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“…So far, the most popular and successful methodological strategy appears to have been the categorisation of websites, webpages and hyperlinks. Inductive categories are the most frequent (Haas and Grams 1998, Thelwall 2003, Bar-Ilan 2004, but some authors have chosen to work with pre-determined categories and taxonomies, either developed from previous experience or theoretically grounded (Weinreich et al 2001, Harrison 2002. A third strategy that has been adopted is the combination of pre-determined and inductive categories (Bjö rneborn 2004).…”

Section: Intermediate and Micro-level Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding links: Web Science and hyperlink studies at macro, meso and micro-levels

Fragoso

2011

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

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Web Science has favoured macroscopic approaches which have revealed much about the Web's structural patterns. We argue that contextualised knowledge about hyperlinks on the Web has not advanced at the same rate and that complementary intermediate and micro-scale investigations are essential for a better understanding of the motivations, functions and meanings of these links. We present an investigation that attempted to overcome the shortcomings of current theoretical frameworks and methodological techniques. The focus of this article lies in the demonstration of the viability of studying the web at different scales of analysis without loss of coherence guided by the assumption of the Web as media. Results of our quali-quantitative, multi-scale and study of the international connectivity of websites registered in Brazil are presented. At the macro-scale, previous indications of high international connectivity are confirmed. Intermediate (meso) and micro-scale analyses focused on the connectivity between Brazilian and German websites and contradicted the conclusions about the meanings and functions of hyperlinks commonly associated with structural analysis. Links between Brazilian and German websites were shown to derive from a large number of formal and generic links, challenging the prevalent association that large quantities of incoming links are an indication of high relevance.

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Section: Intermediate and Micro-level Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…); (3) informative degree of the source anchor (adapted from De Rose 1989); (4) function of the link (adapted fromHaas and Grams 2000, Fragoso 2001, Weinreich et al 2001, Harrison 2002, Bar-Ilan 2004.…”

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Understanding links: Web Science and hyperlink studies at macro, meso and micro-levels

Fragoso

2011

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

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“…Weinreich et al [42] pointed out that the availability of many link types is only helpful if the user can distinguish between them. The main emphasis of the evaluation approach to IPNS was therefore to find evidence to support the claim that user adaptation allowed users to have control over personalisation by enabling them to see the working behaviour of the adaptive system.…”

Section: Evaluation Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Inquiry-led Personalised Navigation System (IPNS) using multi-dimensional linkbases

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New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

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The simplicity of the hypertext model behind the World Wide Web is a factor in its success, but this simplicity brings limitations. One of these limitations is embedding links in documents. Open Hypermedia addresses this by instead storing them in separate link databases. Meanwhile, the Adaptive Hypermedia approach seeks to enhance a user's experience by inserting personalised additional content and links on the web page. However, these techniques do not offer the user any control over the adaptation. In this paper, we propose the concept of a multi-dimensional linkbase for adaptive links presentation. Links are created and stored in a single, multi-dimensional, linkbase that provides presentation links based on the user's preferences and profile. We present a web-based system (IPNS) that implements this multi-dimensional concept for controlling its personalisation of hyperlinks. We give the results of our evaluation, which confirm that user-controlled adaptation is a satisfactory approach to providing users with control over personalization, and can alleviate the link overload problem.

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“…For example, the media space where the trigger is present may be shaded a different colour [12]. Alternatively, the presentation member may specify that a visual cue is inserted into the view at the current point, such as the arrows in Intermedia [9].…”

Section: Presentationmentioning

confidence: 99%